Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-07

so Increase the productiveness of labor
that want can only be consequence of
w1llful idleness, or improvidence, or
vice.
| THE TENDENCY CT STRIKES.
The present struggle is over the dis
tribution of the product, and the meth
DDS employed tend TO diminish rather
than increase the chances Of securing
the end sought. Thus the strikes impov-
erlsh the very men who biindly resort TO
them in the hope of advantage.
J II it be true, SIS asserted, that the labor
Ing man is wronged, the wrong ought to
be redressec; but peaceable means should
be employed. The means, TO be effect uaI,
should appeal to the intelligence Of men,
and not TO their passions.
Labor and capital have q common in
terest-she increase of the productive
power of industry Ia this cause capital
] is the most p ,werful silly of LABOR There
fore the organizations created by the in
dustrial Glasses for the viudic stion of
their rights would set wisely if, instead
OF trying TO cut down the profits Of their
employers, they should seek TO increase
| the productive power of industry; to save
| instead OF waste Snd destroy buildings,
machine and materials cOmmitted 10 tneIr
charge. Labor organizations Inspired by
his kind Of spirit are extremely Denef-
cisl.
WAR WAGED BY WORKINGMEN.
In cases OF lUng-prOtraCted strikes, as
they are carried on, it is the sggressOrs
who are the heaviest sufferers. The
writer says:
Success is hardly ever complete, and
brings with it no comp sDs4tion for the
loss Of sll the earnings that might have
been received during the long period of
enforced idleness, while the spitalist,
on the other hand, often finds an sdvan-
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erstions, SE eratlts =1cEscver, 20
work of accumulated product as
prices impItVei by the eli8atiCn of SEP
ply. When tbs Confederate
States of All !.lcs went seversny through
the solemn and rather farcicsl per
Torrance which they styled "resuming
their sovereignty" they seized or the
forts and srsenals and revenue cutters
belonging to the Federal government
within their reach, and arrested the
operation Of the laws of the United
States everywhere within their borders.
Wnen the Knights of Labor on the great
network of railroads. in the southwest
kuGwn as the Giuld system TO K hist
vast organism, crested for ard minister
ing to the public convenience, out OF
the bands Of its owners, they similarly
took possession of its workshops and
rOundhOuses, "killed" 6lI It's lrCOno-
tiyes, side-tracked its trains, unliD6sd its
cars, stopped the shipment Of fre gd5 and
deied the authorities sqUsIy Of the state
and CT the nsiCn. These acts, IN the
former Gaze, we styled rebeiliOn; what
shall we call tbem in the late i? Mr..
Martin Irons called them wsr, and h was
right. He coOlIy justified mis- or ceilings
on the ground inst he va merely xer-
cisiug the legitimate rigl OF q hellg+r-
ent.
The writer refers also to the strike Of
lSst January, when some hsrdlers OF
coal, having had some difference with the
minlag or transportation company en-
plOyiDg them, issued On ed'cG that no
coal should be delivered on l6e pie Of
New YORK. Ev-ry one IS familiar With
the story of suffering thus brought upon
the poor, who were depend nj upon the
petty purchases made from day 10 dsV,
while persons in better circumstances had
q sufficient supply TO ena1I= them 20 stSUd
a siege Of some duration, and dealers
were enabled to raise the prices on stocks
already laid in. This IS war But war
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gents and elOns, and should he treated
es such. The instigaturs Of sucn move
ments sre enemies of the bUmSn race,
against whom sil good i z.rs should
array themselves il solid plsIaDx. The
federation Of their practices can have but
one ultimate Ou1Come-tbe complete sub
version OF social order, the institution of
the reign OF vIolepce aud the triumph Of
anarchy.
In conclusion Professor Barnard saws:
'Let men strike, if they will, but let
them understand that to att mpt
to enforce a strike by violence is
criminal; to endeavOr to mainrstn one
by blockade is felony. The srts of pace
can 4 )urish only under the laws Of pesce.
They can never be successfully carried on
under the articles of var, and Industrial
peace will never be wO- tn having So long
IS il continues 10 be ONLY an arme5 truce.
Let the supremacy OF Law b. first fully
recognized and respected by men of ali
classes, whether employers or employed,
whether capitalists or opera ives, and
then all the points Of industrial peace, so
far as they are in the nature OF things
realizable, will come Of themselves"